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"Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to
increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany.
As climate change continues to worsen, this price inflation will mean more and
more people around the world don’t have a varied and healthy diet, or simply
don’t have enough food.
The new analysis shows that global warming could cause food price inflation to
increase by between 0.9 and 3.2 percentage points per year by 2035. The same
warming will cause a smaller rise in overall inflation (between 0.3 and 1.2
percentage points), so a greater proportion of household income would need to
be spent on buying food.
This effect will be felt worldwide, by high and low-income countries alike, but
nowhere more so than in the global south. As with various other consequences of
climate change, Africa will be worst affected despite contributing little to
its causes.
Our own research on food security in Ghana, west Africa, gives a sense of what
price inflation might mean in practice. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change describes west Africa as a “hotspot” of climate change, with models
predicting extreme rising temperatures and reduced rainfall. With more than
half of the population being directly dependent on rain-fed agriculture, Ghana
is particularly vulnerable to climate change."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
